I am interested in a wide variety of lightning physics questions. I consider myself primarly an "instrument guy" - someone
who develops instrumentation to better understand the underlying nature of how lightning works.
There is also a very real societal impact related to lightning research. To that end, I am also involved in investigations
how to better explore this important area of lightning research, particularly how lightning and lightning energetics
relate to severe weather and high impact manifestations of lightning.
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The following video is an example of some of the work we do at UAH. It is the leader/return stroke of a negative CG flash
that occured near the campus of UAH. See the description on Youtube for more!

This video shows the average number of lightning flashes each day that occur over the United States during the year. We made this
video using data from the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), two instruments developed by
researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.